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The DT5751 is a 2-4 Channel 10 bit 2/1 GS/s Desktop Waveform Digitizer with 1 Vpp dynamic range on single ended MCX coaxial input connectors. Versions with 0.2 Vpp single ended customization are also available. 2 GS/s is featured when working in Dual Edge Sampling (DES) mode. The DC offset is adjustable via a 16-bit DAC on each channel in the ±0.5 V range @ 1 Vpp or ±0.1 V @ 0.2 Vpp.

The module features a front panel clock In and a PLL for clock synthesis from internal/external references. The data stream is continuously written in a circular memory buffer. When the trigger occurs, the FPGA writes further N samples for the post trigger and freezes the buffer that can be read via USB or optical link. The acquisition can continue without dead time in a new buffer.

Each channel has a SRAM Multi-Event Buffer of 1.835 MS (3.6 MS in DES mode) divisible into 1 ÷ 1024 buffers of programmable size. The readout (from USB or Optical link) of a frozen buffer is independent from the write operations in the active circular buffer (ADC data storage). Mod. DT5751 supports multi-board synchronization allowing all ADCs to be synchronized to a common clock source and ensuring Trigger time stamps alignment. When synchronized, all data will be aligned and coherent across multiple DT5751 boards.

The trigger signal can be provided via the front panel input as well as via the software, but it can also be generated internally with threshold auto-trigger capability. DT5751 houses USB 2.0 and optical link interfaces. USB 2.0 allows data transfers up to 30 MB/s. The Optical Link supports transfer rate of 80 MB/s, and offer daisy-chain capability. Therefore it is possible to connect up to 8/32 ADC modules to a single Optical Link Controller (Mod. A2818/A3818).Software available (Windows and Linux):CAEN provides drivers for all the different types of physical communication channels, a set of C and LabView libraries (CAENComm and CAENDigitizer), demo applications and utilities:

CAENSCOPE: fully graphical program that implements a simple oscilloscope.

CAENUpgrader: tool that allows the user to update the firmware of the digitizers, change the PLL settings, load, when requested, the license for the pay firmware and other utilities.

CAEN WaveDump: software console application that can be used to configure and readout event data from any model of the CAEN digitizer family and save the data into a memory buffer allocated for this purpose.

CAEN provides also for this model two Digital Pulse Processing firmware for Physics Applications:

DPP-ZLEplus Digital Pulse Processing for the Zero Length Encoding DPP-ZLEplus is a new version of the Zero Suppression algorithm (Zero Length Encoding) with improved readout performances. It allows to transfer digitized waveforms in compressed mode, discarding data included in a band around the baseline that does not contain useful information.

(C) This firmware requires a license or it will run in a 30-minute-per-power-cycle fully functional trial version(*) IMPORTANT!
x751 DPP-PSD Firmware - 32Mb FLASH is not supported by all x751 boards. Please, refer to the document 751 DPP-PSD Firmware Compatibility

(D) This firmware requires a license or it will run in a 30-minute-per-power-cycle fully functional trial version

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